Inserting a note BEFORE the first note of a flow

Morning. It may be already answered somewhere but can’t find it.

Is there a simple way to insert a note before the first note of a flow? My actual workaround is tedios and stupid and assume there is some much more simple and elegant way to do this…

I don’t use Insert mode much but it could be as simple as turning Insert mode on and then entering a crotchet at the first beat.

The following music should all be pushed forward one beat etc. Someone with more knowledge may give you a better solution.

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The problem is that, it comes only AFTER the selected note. What I wanted is BEFORE it…

Could you be a bit more specific about what you want to achieve? E.g. do you want to add a pickup bar, or do you want your existing music to shift?

You can insert a note before the first note of your flow by selecting the first existing note (or rest), start Note input, activate Insert mode and input your desired note:

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If you want to insert a pickup bar, have a look at this part of the manual:

or is this note a grace note?

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If it works as your demo shows, everything is sloved, will check when I get to my laptop.

The reason I’m searching it is quite weird. I transcribed loads of church songs with non consequitive verse numbers and was struggling with the first syllable what consisted of the verse number AND the first real syllable.

I got a good advice here to add a fake note before, reducing to invisible and adding the verse number as a lyrics to this invisible ‘note before the first real note’. It works really well, but to do this I need to insert a note to all my existing flows. This is what I’m struggling at the moment…

(Hope I wad clear enough for beeing understandable…)

It seems to be possible, but may need some cleaning up w/ Forced Duration. This proof-of-concept is done with a 4/4,5 meter and an initial quarter note suppressed and with stem and notehead hidden.

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Yes!!! I made it! Sorry for bothering you…

No bother. :grin:

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Adding up all heard I made grace note of the one before the first note, what ideal:)

[select the first note] Shift B 1q (or any other value) enter

I made followings:

  1. Insert mode on
  2. Selecting the first note
  3. Shift+N
  4. Writing a semiquaver
  5. Turning it to grace note
  6. Reducing size to 1% making it invisible
  7. Using the fake note for adding the verse number via Shift+l
    I merged all tips you gave me and got to a smashing solution:) thanks!